The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-12-14

pretty well understood in well-informed politi-
cal circles that the Cabinet changes herein
proposed had been determined uron by the
President some weeks in advance, the an-
nouncement of the appointments created no
surprise. 1t has been said that Mr.. Lamar Will
either be promptly confirmed or else long and
stubborn fight will be made against him. What
reasons the President has To think he can con-
troll enough Republican Senators TO insure an
early confirmation can only be guessed at
With Faulkner of West Virginia out, the DEM
ocrats have not their full strength by one VOTE
but they do not seem uneasy.
LUCIUS Q. G. LAMAR
Mr.. Lamar born at Oxford Putnam
County. Ga, Sept. II, 1925. and received his
early schooling In his native town lie gradua-
ted at Emory College, Georgia, in 1915. He
studied law at Macon, Ga, and was admitted
to the bar in la. He moved to Oxford, Miss,
In 1872 and was elected Adjunct l rofessor OF
Mathematics in tho Mississippi State Univer-
sity. He resigned in 10 -, and went to Coving-
ton, Co., where he devoted himself to the prac-
tice CT law. In 1858 he WAS elected to the
Georgia Legislature, and in the following year
return d to Mississippi, where he settled on q
plantation in Lafayette County. Ho was elect
ed to the 1hirty-tfth and 1hirty-sXth Con-
crosses. and resigned in 1870. He entered
the Confederate army in 1861, as Lieu
tenant Colonel OF the Nineteenth Missis-
sippi Volunteers, and was soon promoted
to the Colonelcy. In 1868 he WIS sent to Rus
sia by the Confederate COY eminent on an
important diplomatic mission. He returned to
Mississippi at the close of the war, and in 1866,
was elected Professor of Political Economy
and Social Science in the university of the State.
year later he was transferred t. the Profess
sorship of Law. He was elected TO the Forty.
third Congress and reelected 10 the Forty.
fourth. In the winter of lS76-'i7 he was elected
tn the Senate, where he served until his APP
pointnent as Secretary of the Interior. He was
widower until few months ago, when he
married Georgia widow who had been his
sweetheart in their youth, and has no fortune
outside his official salary. He lives quietly,
and often passes intimate friends unrecognized
when he is in a brown study.
CHARLES S. FAIRCHILD
Charles s. airchild was born at CaZenovia,
n. y, in 1912, was graduated at Harvard, and
began the practice of law at Albany, y. ",
where he was very successful In 1870 he was
elected Attorney General OF New York on the
Democratic ticket. He was candidate for re-
nomination in 1871, but was defeated i'll the
convention by Augustus Schoonmaker Jr. Mr..
Fairchild held no public Office since that year,
until. in lSo, he was appointed by President
Cleveland to be Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury In the meantime he was President
of the New York State Charities Aid Associu-
ton.
WILLIAM FREEMAN Villas.
Mr. Villas was born at Chelsea, Orange Coun-
ty, Vt, July ., 1870 When he was IL years old
he went to Wisconsin,, where, a few months
after, he was entered as n pupil of the prepare
tory department of the universi ty of that state.
In 1853 he matricul lated in the freshman class
Of that institution. and was graduated there IN
1858. After taking his acadenical degree he
studied law in Albany, N Y, and was gradu-
ated from the law school of that city in 1860.
After his admission to the Inc. supreme Court of
his birthday, July .. 1860, he made his first
argument before the Supreme Court Of that
State. Upon the breaking out Of the war Mr..
Villas entered the army Captain in the
Twenty-third Wisconsin Volunteers, and rose to
be Major and Lieutenant Colonel He resigned
his commission and resumed the practice of the
law January l. 1864. The Supreme Court OF
Wisconsin appointed Colonel silas one of the
pevisers OF the statutes of the State in 1875, and
the revision of 1873, adopted by tho state, was
partly made by him. He has held vsrious posi-
lions of trust in Wisconsin, and in 1915 was a
member of the lower house of the legislature.
He is n fine orator, his famous eulogy Of Grant
Mt the Chicago banquet giving lapl nat onal
reputation. He presided over the National
Democratic Convention which nominated
Cleveland.
DON NJ. DICKINSON.
Don NJ. Dickinson was born in Port Ontario,
Oswego County New York. Jan. IL, 1876. In
1913, when Don NJ. was but years old, the
Dckinsons moved TO Michigan. After passing
through the public schools in Detroit he en-
tered the law de Dartment OF the State Uni
versty. He was good student, and the degree
of Ii. Is. made the Young Detroiter n full
fiedged scn'lar He achieved almost instant
success rs n LAWYER, and it was not long before
his practice hecame the most lucrative in the
State. Much Of his atte ntion was turned to
bankruptcy cases, and he aided largely In franz
ing the Michigan insolvency laws. His most
recent success was as counsel in the telephone
case before the United States Supreme Court.